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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"landscape context"”.
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Insects in mountainous landscapes: Implications of landscape context and climate change
Landscape context (i.e., habitat area, habitat quality and habitat fragmentation) determines the local distribution and regional survival of insect specialist herbivores. The effects of landscape context on individual species are often complex and species-specific. Furthermore, interactions with …
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Influence of vegetation structure and landscape context on the occupancy of shrubland birds
Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 109948 on 2021-02-09T10:15:34Z.
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Use of restored grasslands by mammals in a dynamic agroecosystem: insights from camera trapping
… of restoration outcomes consider effects of landscape context. I integrated camera trapping with occupancy modeling for two seasons (summer and winter) to assess mammal responses on 30 restored grassland sites in a dynamic agroecosystem in Illinois from 2014 to 2015. I tested hypotheses about …
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Nesting Ecology of Grassland Birds in an Agricultural Landscape
Agriculture is an appropriate landscape context for grassland reserves. I found agricultural edges do not influence nest predation, reserves in agricultural settings support successful nesting throughout breeding seasons, and cropland is an important foraging habitat for birds provisioning …
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Long-Term Effects of Burns on the Understories of Fragmented Suburban Forests in the Midwestern USA
… to the overall biodiversity in human dominated landscapes. Within these forests, most plant species are found within the understory and are herbaceous (‘herbs’, hereafter). Management actions, such as prescribed burns, conducted by natural resource managers to reduce the prevalence of non-native …
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Interpreting Iron Age settlement landscapes of Wigtownshire
… interpretations of Iron Age settlement landscapes are possible by considering a variety of other observations, which traditional classifications ignore, such as the landscape context of specific monuments. This thesis presents a critical review of these alternative interpretations and …
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Towards a Greater Knowledge Base - Engaging Chicago River Watershed Intelligence to Demonstrate Systemic Landscape Design Strategies
Traditional landscape architecture design practices are limited by existing institutions and too reductive and site-focused. These practices typically lack the synthetic, flexible, and projective methods necessary for the effective planning, design, and management of complex regional landscapes. …
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Valuing the ecosystem services provided by UK bats under climate change
… to ecosystem service delivery in agricultural landscapes. First, I examined how climate and land-use change may reshape the distribution, composition, and functional diversity of European bat assemblages. I show that climate change is predicted to drive substantial redistribution of bat species …
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Investigating the efficiency of reforestation approaches in restoring rainforest biodiversity and function
… structure, microhabitat, soil properties and landscape context. These findings suggest that although landscape context and intrinsic site characteristics affect restoration success, they can potentially be mitigated by the establishment of a well-developed, rainforest-like habitat structure …
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Compatible components of the integrated pest management of Bathycoelia distincta (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae
… of this study was to investigate the role of landscape context, elevation, flying vertebrates, and pesticide application in shaping arboreal arthropod assemblages and macadamia nut quality metrics and evaluate the efficacy of alternative pest control measures to control B. distincta, …
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Reconciling conservation, agriculture and household welfare: Testing the suitability of the land sparing and sharing model in Western Uganda
… the multiple requirements that people place on landscapes. The land sparing and sharing model is a simple and powerful way of framing the trade-offs between agricultural production and biodiversity conservation but one that has been subject to much criticism, not least for its failure to …
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Insects in urban brownfields: analyses of species occurrences, community composition, and trait frequencies along a successional gradient
… age, vegetation structure, soil conditions, landscape context). Vegetation structure was of major importance. Unlike species numbers, species composition changes largely during succession. Models overall showed good transferability in space and time, drawbacks are discussed in detail. The …
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Spatial and temporal variability in Acacia population dynamics
… common African savanna trees, the Acacia, in a landscape context. I carried out my field work in Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park in K waZulu Natal, South Africa, during 2006 and 2007. Fire, herbivory, and the grass layer were primary determinants of distributions and co-occurrence of Acacia species.
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Trace and the makers of meaning
… accessible records of trace and the past is the landscape, which over time acts as a repository of evidence from natural forces and things that humans have created or changed. This thesis considers trace as material and nonmaterial evidence, remnants, marks, vestiges of events past and forgotten …
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The edge observed : island landscape for a marine biology facility
… the observation studies. The island exists in a landscape context that has clearly defined edge conditions. A harmony is sought that interprets the natural landscape and transforms it in such a way that there is a reciprocity and interaction with the built. Orientation, views and landscape …
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The Local Landscape Research Framework
Archaeological research in landscapes should produce outputs and outcomes of value to the unique context that defines them. This includes the bespoke perceptions of intangible space as well as the physical place formed from a complex interconnected, multi-vocal and social narrative. However, many …
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Landscape effects on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colony performance and fitness in New York State
… are limiting to their survival and growth at the landscape scale. Our study examined the performance of the common eastern bumble bee, Bombus impatiens (Cresson), in four common landscapes (natural, suburban, conventional agriculture, and organic agriculture). In the summers of 2016 and 2017, 64 …
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An Aerial Investigation and Mapping Project in Southern Holderness: An Evolving Wetland Landscape
… their broader archaeological and topographical landscape context. For this project, a 25km² area, incorporating a 1km buffer, was defined in southern Holderness for a programme of aerial investigation and mapping. The extent of the study area was selected to encompass a notably dense …
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Beyond the temple : establishing a context for Gallo-Roman sanctuaries
… of these sites, it considers the wider defining context of temple complexes as places for ritualised action and attempts to move away from categorisation of sites based on architectural form (for example 'temple' or 'spring' sites). Alternative approaches to the architecture of temple sites are …
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Long-term dynamics of forest phenology across the central hardwoods
… bioclimatic conditions that can be used for landscape-based wildlife conservation planning. However, many prior assessments are restricted to recent satellite sensors and cannot reliably distinguish forested areas from mixed land cover due to their spatial resolution, limiting their …
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